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Where Our Business Funding Reaches in and Around Porter County, IN

Requests can come by phone or the request form from Valparaiso, IN and the towns around it, inside Porter County, IN and beyond the county line. Below, each place is named along with the Census figures that do, or do not, describe it.

Step by Step for Small Firms

  1. Conversation

    Call, or send the form, and describe the bill and what pays it back.

  2. Funding types

    The types that match, and the records a partner may ask for.

  3. Partner terms

    A partner reviews the request and makes its own decision.

In short

Fieldhaven Business Funding, in Valparaiso, Indiana, takes funding requests by phone and request form from businesses across Porter County, Indiana and nearby counties. Chesterton, IN and Portage, IN have pages of their own; other Porter County, IN towns and places in Lake County, IN and LaPorte County, IN are named here, with ZIP figures labeled as ZIP figures.

Chesterton, IN and Portage, IN: Two Porter County, IN Pages

Chesterton, IN lies about 4.4 miles north-northwest of Fieldhaven's listed location in a straight line, and Portage, IN about 8.2 miles west-northwest. Both are in Porter County, IN, so the county figures used across this site describe them, and each has its own ZIP and self-employment figures. Their pages set those out and link them to the funding types that fit their trades.

The Valparaiso, IN page covers the county seat itself, with ZIP 46383 counts and the permit and zoning offices.

Kouts, IN, Hebron, IN and the South of Porter County, IN

Kouts, IN and Hebron, IN sit in the southern half of the county, about 15.2 and 17.0 miles from Fieldhaven's listed location. ZIP Code Business Patterns counted 83 employer establishments in ZIP 46347 and 152 in ZIP 46341 in 2023 (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023); the two towns cover only 1.7% and 2.0% of those ZIPs' land, so these are ZIP counts rather than town counts. Construction led both ZIPs, with 18 and 31 establishments (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023).

Burns Harbor, IN, Porter, IN and Other Northern Porter County, IN Towns

Burns Harbor, IN, Porter, IN, Town of Pines, IN and Beverly Shores, IN lie between Valparaiso, IN and the county's northern edge. Porter, IN is a town of its own, not the county. None of these places has a separate ZIP in the Census business files that would describe it on its own terms, so the Porter County, IN figures on this site are the nearest description of businesses there. Owners in any of them send a request the same way and are read on their own records.

Hobart, IN, Merrillville, IN and Crown Point, IN in Lake County, IN

West of the county line, Lake County, IN is a separate county, and Porter County, IN figures do not describe its towns. ZIP Code Business Patterns counted 525 employer establishments in ZIP 46342 (Hobart, IN), 1,553 in ZIP 46410 (Merrillville, IN) and 1,503 in ZIP 46307 (Crown Point, IN) in 2023 (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Businesses there can send a request by phone or form; this site has no separate pages for them.

Michigan City, IN and La Porte, IN in LaPorte County, IN

To the east, LaPorte County, IN is also its own county. ZIP Code Business Patterns counted 1,061 employer establishments in ZIP 46360, which includes Michigan City, IN, and 915 in ZIP 46350, which includes La Porte, IN, in 2023 (ZIP Code Business Patterns 2023). Michigan City, IN covers 26.6% of its ZIP's land and La Porte, IN 6.2% of its ZIP's, so the counts describe the ZIPs. Requests from either are welcome by phone or form.

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Small Employers, Payroll and Self-Employment: Porter County, IN Census Figures

  • 3,734

    Employer establishments

    Porter County, IN business locations with at least one paid employee.

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023
  • 51.1%

    Employers with fewer than five employees

    Share of Porter County, IN employer establishments with fewer than five employees.

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023
  • 11,955

    Businesses without paid employees

    Porter County, IN businesses with receipts and no payroll, counted in Nonemployer Statistics.

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2024
  • 8.3%

    Porter County residents working for themselves

    Share of employed Porter County, IN residents who are self-employed; Indiana's share is 8.0%.

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024

Local Townships on Our List

Requests can come by phone or the request form from anywhere in Porter County, IN and nearby.

What Owners Ask on Funding

Brief answers to first questions about sending a request.

Call (219) 206-9543
Can a business outside Porter County, IN send a request?

Yes. Partners read each business's own records wherever it is; this site's county figures describe Porter County, IN only.

Why do some towns have no page?

Pages exist where the Census publishes enough figures for the place itself; other towns are covered here.

A Business in Porter County, IN or Just Across the Line?

Call (219) 206-9543 or send the request form.

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